Humpday Randomnimity

I just wanted to thank everyone who came out last week for our show at WonderRoot. Royal Bangs, This Piano Plays Itself, and Nomen Novum all put down fabulous performances. We video taped everything and will have that, as well as all the Bonnaroo footage I got, available soon.







Get the new Girl Talk album here.

Silver Jews will be at The Variety Playhouse September 13th.

Dead Confederate's CD release show will be at The Earl September 20th.

Fag Static's debut LP comes out July 12th.

Tilly And The Wall and The Ruby Suns will be at The Variety Playhouse July 24th. Don't miss this one!

Wolf Parade will be at The Variety Playhouse July 28th.

Black Kids will be at The Earl September 23rd.

Mogwai will be at The Variety Playhouse September 15th.

Stereolab will be at The Variety Playhouse September 26th.

Dr. Dog will be at The Earl September 6th.

Tegan And Sara will be at The Tabernacle September 30th.

Conor Oberst is touring but the closest he is coming to Atlanta is Tennessee in August.

A Place To Bury Strangers and Sian Alice Group will be at The Drunken Unicorn October 18th.

The Shins are releasing their next album on their own label.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are releasing their next album (January 2009) om their own new label.

Smashing Pumpkins are planning a Gish box set re-release and a tour based around it.

Festival Happenings:

Athens Popfest schedule up

All Good schedule up

Lollapalooza schedule up and late night shows announced

Voodoo announced line-up

Austin City Limits schedule up


Zach Hill video (really awesome, watch this one!):




Lil Wayne on Jimmy Kimmel:



HEALTH live at ATJ Fest:



And for laughs Trey Anastasio (Phish) graduating from drug court:

Friday Free-Style

November 30th, The Black Lips, Snowden, Deerhunter, and The Selmanaires will be at the Variety Playhouse together for an epic night of Atlanta music.

The Sword will be at The Earl on December 3rd. Check them:



The much-anticipated-by-me new The Mars Volta album, Bedlam In Goliath, is not going to be released until January 29th of next year. An old school vid for you:



The Langerado Music Festival in Florida, which usually kicks off the festival season, has moved to Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation(most famously known for the place Phish played new years eve 2000) for next year's event taking place March 6th-9th 2008. The line-up announcement and tickets sales are coming in November and we'll hit you with it when it happens. Phish at Big Cypress:



Battles are releasing a new EP, Tonto+, featuring live tracks and and remixes from their stellar full length of this year, Tonto.

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance will finally be released on DVD, which means that now you have to pay for it instead of downloading it for free on the live music torrent sites.



New Eminem track might be here.

Of Montreal will be at the Variety Playhouse on November 20th. Tickets are on sale today so get them quick because this will sell out.

Opeth and Dream Theater will be touring together in the US next year. No word if their coming here yet. Opeth vid:



White Rabbits will be at The Earl November 6th.

Before playing at the Earl October 22nd, Japan's Boris will be playing at Criminal Records at 4pm in the afternoon. I highly recommend checking them out:



Morrissey will be at The Tabernacle on November 5th.

Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to F@ck with, and they cleared the first ever Beatles sample.

Read about the guy who makes crazy-ass guitars for Sonic Youth, Liars, Blonde Redhead and Lightning Bolt.

Read some interviews:

• Neil Young
• The Decemberists
• Battles
• Jose Gonzalez
• Devendra Banhart
• Iron And Wine
• Okkervil River

I leave you today with this controversial SNL vid:

Langerado Torrents

Photo copyright Live Music Blog

Here's some live shows from Langerado last weekend:

Trey Anastasio,Langerado Music Festival,Sunrise, FL 3/9/07 4011s

Micheal Franti & Speahead Mar 10, 2007 Langerado Fest mg210

My Morning Jacket,Langerado Music Festival,Sunrise, FL 3/10/07 4011s

The Hold Steady,Langerado Music Festival,Sunrise, FL, 3/9/07 4011s

Widespread Panic,Langerado Music Festival, Sunrise, FL 4011s 3/11/07

Greyboy Allstars 2007-03-10 Langerado Schoeps mk4

Galactic 2007-03-09 Langerado

Tea Leaf Green,Langerado Music Festival,Sunrise, FL 3/9/07 4011s

Friday Free-Style

One more reminder: Roger Waters tickets go on sale tommorrow!!! Pink Floyd dude! Darkside Of The Moon played from front to back brah!!! Dude, we can sooooo stoned and just trip out. That's shit is gonna be heady brah! Seriously, if you're gonna only see one show all year, this is the one to see. Get Tickets



The White Stripes have new album coming out soon called Icky Thump.

Somebody said "Biggie Smalls" three times in a mirror and now The Notorious BIG is back with a Greatest Hits album out this tuesday.

The new El-P album drops march 20th and contains collaberations with The Mars Volta and Trent Reznor. Hells yeah.

Postal Service have new record called Dumb Luck coming out April 24th in case you hadn't heard.

Actor Matt Dillon is directing the new Dinosaur Jr video. I hope his directing is better than his acting.

Fiona Apple and Jon Brion are doing some benefit shows together in Jon' house/venue Largo in LA next week. Wish i could see it.

California's Joshue Tree Festival has announced their line-up.

Billy Martin and John Medeski have put Chris Woods (MMW) in time-out and have recorded a duet album together called Mago that comes out in May.

Ryan Adams drops his ninth album on June 5th called Easy Tiger.

Akron/Family's Seth Olinsky has a solo album that came out last Tuesday. Best of Seth's Sparrow Trout Heart Sprout is hard to find and going for like 40 bucks on Amazon. Some mp3s are available here.

Get the 411 on some artists:

• TV On The Radio
• Shins
• Sebadoh
• Deerhoof
• Mountain Goats

Here's Phish doing "Divided Sky"in 1994 on Halloween: